bogeyman
20th July 2013, 06:33
There has been over the last few years a massive increase in censorship. It is likely the incident that occurred on 9/11 is a major reason why (or excuse) this increase has occurred. I will say there is something not quite right concerning the so called terrorist incident on that day. The US intelligence community were having their budgets cut, and there were no reasonable threats to the security of the US or its allies since the fall of the USSR as a world player. Then it happened, all very convenience, and the reaction of some of the leadership is also cause for concern.
Since then the Bush and Obama Administration's has used censorship under the guise of "national security" to withhold information, and to manipulate public opinion. Sometimes the censorship in the case of documentation is border line ridiculous. The distribution list is censored the name of the individual responding to you request is censored in documents released. There is also a more suspicious activity which involves the manipulation of legal processes, which may have in their opinion national security justification, by using legal techniques to place information in inaccessible locations as to be unobtainable using various legal laws and acts which do have the authority to make the information avaliable. Sometimes the powers that be just do not want to inform the public of any activities or provide any information, this is more likely a systematic response or a culture that has developed, sometimes paranoia on the endless possible, improbable, and impossible threats which may or may not occur.
The reaction of the media, the public and foreign powers or interested groups is also of concern and is deem a possible and actual national security threat or has implications to the stability of the United States. This is depending on current events, information that has been declassified, leaked information (such as Snowden) from sources, and deliberate manipulation of events and information by interested parties in the USG.
It boils down to this, if in any doubt classify it. Also an uninformed masses are easier to control and provide less grief, and of course be used for their own ends. We must not forget also it is Important to keep control of your own military personnel, and that is essential also.
It has been said that the US military and Administration policies are ensuring national security, but national security of whom? The 40 per cent of Americans who live below the poverty line and eating out of garbage bins? Or is it the structure of power and the central command structure which must be protected? Or is it the middle classes who provide the majority of the tax which funds the US military machine as well as other agencies in the civilian sector? It would be more plausible that the power structure is the first to be protected under national security the very individuals who sometimes cause the threat to occur directly or indirectly through a sequence of events which leads to the development of the threat, a process which repeats itself, since the US military machine needs threats to justify its existence and of course those at the top of the chain who have certain indoctrinations and mind sets and agendas.
Since then the Bush and Obama Administration's has used censorship under the guise of "national security" to withhold information, and to manipulate public opinion. Sometimes the censorship in the case of documentation is border line ridiculous. The distribution list is censored the name of the individual responding to you request is censored in documents released. There is also a more suspicious activity which involves the manipulation of legal processes, which may have in their opinion national security justification, by using legal techniques to place information in inaccessible locations as to be unobtainable using various legal laws and acts which do have the authority to make the information avaliable. Sometimes the powers that be just do not want to inform the public of any activities or provide any information, this is more likely a systematic response or a culture that has developed, sometimes paranoia on the endless possible, improbable, and impossible threats which may or may not occur.
The reaction of the media, the public and foreign powers or interested groups is also of concern and is deem a possible and actual national security threat or has implications to the stability of the United States. This is depending on current events, information that has been declassified, leaked information (such as Snowden) from sources, and deliberate manipulation of events and information by interested parties in the USG.
It boils down to this, if in any doubt classify it. Also an uninformed masses are easier to control and provide less grief, and of course be used for their own ends. We must not forget also it is Important to keep control of your own military personnel, and that is essential also.
It has been said that the US military and Administration policies are ensuring national security, but national security of whom? The 40 per cent of Americans who live below the poverty line and eating out of garbage bins? Or is it the structure of power and the central command structure which must be protected? Or is it the middle classes who provide the majority of the tax which funds the US military machine as well as other agencies in the civilian sector? It would be more plausible that the power structure is the first to be protected under national security the very individuals who sometimes cause the threat to occur directly or indirectly through a sequence of events which leads to the development of the threat, a process which repeats itself, since the US military machine needs threats to justify its existence and of course those at the top of the chain who have certain indoctrinations and mind sets and agendas.